Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft has attracted $1.1 million in funding on graduating from Y Combinator, the prestigious Silicon Valley-based acceleration program.

Ukrainian legal-tech startup AxDraft has attracted $1.1 million in funding on graduating from Y Combinator, the prestigious Silicon Valley-based acceleration program. Founded in Kyiv by Yuriy Zaremba, a former lawyer at Avellum, AxDraft use IT to detect codable patterns to develop contract templates. “For MHP we helped save more than 1,150 hours of lawyer time by automating corporate documents and land leases,” Zaremba says, referring to agro giant Mironivsky Hliboproduct. After working in Ukraine with MHP, FOZZI, Carlsberg and British American Tobacco, Zaremba says AxDraft “helps in-house legal departments of corporation spend 70% less time on drafting routine legal documents and delegate more legal work to non-lawyers.” As Zaremba looks for US sales managers, the startup now is valued at $10 million.